"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"

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Source : Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777”

Samuel Adams

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“A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.”
“You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.”
“One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate â€” disgusting behavior!”

Source : Sei Shōnagon (1967). “The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon”
“I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar!”
“Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.”
“Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.”

Source : Jerry Weintraub (2010). “When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man”, p.6, Hachette UK
“In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.”
“I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.”

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